If the way Romy’s time-lagged messages with “J” and her reports gradually uncovered what really happened to the Infinity gripped you, you’ll love how Illuminae is told through hacked emails, IMs, ship logs, and transcripts. Like Romy piecing together Molly’s updates and J’s increasingly unsettling messages, Kady sifts through redacted files to expose the real threat stalking her convoy—each document tightening the screws until the reveal hits.

Did Romy’s isolated routine aboard the Infinity—and the way a single voice over the comm could be comfort or danger—get under your skin? The Luminous Dead traps Gyre in a cave system with only Em on the radio. As with Romy and “J,” their relationship hinges on half-truths, withheld data, and life-or-death instructions. The result is the same claustrophobic intensity you felt when Romy realized the person guiding her might be the one putting her in peril.

If the twist that “J” wasn’t who he said he was made your stomach drop, The Darkness Outside Us will scratch that same itch. Two astronauts wake on a ship with an agenda that doesn’t add up, while their only companion—the ship’s AI—feels eerily like Romy’s delayed comms: helpful until you realize what’s being concealed. The shifting trust, shocking revelations, and desperate course corrections echo Romy’s last-act scramble to survive once the truth comes out.

If you connected with Romy’s interiority—her grief for her parents, her coping rituals like writing fanfic, and her questions about who she is after years alone—The Adoration of Jenna Fox offers that same piercing, intimate voice. Jenna, like Romy, sifts through fragments and carefully guarded truths to understand what’s been done to keep her alive, raising the same moral questions that shadowed Romy’s mission and choices aboard the Infinity.

If you loved living in Romy Silvers’ head—her first-person logs, calculations, and split-second calls as everything goes wrong—This Splintered Silence puts you in the same seat. Lindley becomes acting commander after a disaster wipes out the adults on her station, and her singular perspective captures the mounting pressure, isolation, and hard choices that echoed Romy’s command of the Infinity when help was too far away.